Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:22:43 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Thomas Cannon <tcannon@noops.org> Cc: jedgar@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I think this could be better Message-ID: <20020419042242.GF629@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020418172834.X9440-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> References: <20020418165048.A22497@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020418172834.X9440-100000@stereophonic.noops.org>
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On 2002-04-18 17:31, Thomas Cannon wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > It's not a world-writable directory unless your umask is fubar.
> > It probably should be using "mktemp -d" though.
>
> /tmp is not world writable?
>
> Oh, I understand. Sure it creates a non-world-writable directory.
> But it does so in a world-writable directory. So all I have to do is
> make the /tmp/install.$$ directory first. The umask doesn't even
> come into play.
Guys, guys. Relax. In -CURRENT, mktemp is used:
$ grep INSTALLTMP /usr/src/Makefile.inc1 | head -1
INSTALLTMP!= /usr/bin/mktemp -d -u -t install
Now, we need to ask jedgar who committed this to MFC it :)
(Cc: already done.)
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
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